Thursday Night TV Open Thread
Who is in charge of the math over in the TV Scheduling Department? Because this is getting ridiculous. Why is most of the week an empty wasteland with almost no laffs at all, and then Thursday night it's a chore to get through all the great shows? Hasn't TV ever heard of pacing itself? C'mon TV! And as if TV hadn't already overloaded Thursday nights with 18 hours of good shows, now FX is adding The League? Enough! Uncle, or whatever! Why do you hate all the other days of the week so much?
Speaking of The League, it's pretty good! Obviously, we all have good will towards this show (right? SAY YOU HAVE GOOD WILL TOWARDS THIS SHOW) because it has Nick Kroll and Paul Scheer in it, and we like them (SAY THAT YOU LIKE THEM), even if some of us were a little worried because of how much we don't care about fantasy football at all, since some of us do not even care about reality football. And there are definitely a lot of fantasy football jokes in this show about which I lack the ability to even form an opinion, but there are lots of other jokes, too, and those jokes were funny. So, you know, that is good.
And then, of course, there is the whole Jeff Dunham was on 30 Rock thing.
It was weird! They were kind of making fun of him? For being awful and appealing to idiots? And he got tackled. But then also kind of making fun of themselves, namely 30 Rock's off-putting pride in its own cleverness and detachment from what America actually wants. Accurate! Whatever, I'm just glad that this isn't forever. For a second I really thought Jack was going to hire Jeff Dunham to be the new actor on the show for a few episodes or something. Although I suppose it would have been funny when one of the puppets made one of his racist "jokes" to Tracy Jordan. I am sure that would have gone very well!
Sincerely,
Peppy Bismilk.
Posted by Gabe at 11:30 AM in Love-Watching
Tags: 30 Rock | Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | The League | The Office
Community fans: Abed's Batman voice. How fucking funny was that? I almost died of LAFFTER!
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Yes, twas awesome.
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Abed's monologue at the end reminded me of The Advantures of Sonic And Tails.
"Lurking, running, jumping, hurdling, sleeping. No, I don't sleep. You sleep."
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It might just be because it is the shiny new toy in the pile, but I am really into Community. Even if it wasn't the first to come up on the DVR queue, I think I would watch it first. It just seems to get stronger by the week. And Parks and Rec was great last night as well. I'm no tv buff, but I can't really think of another show that has made such a leap in its second season. Of course, both of those shows are at least five deep when it comes to talent, so they're not exactly underdogs.
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Oh, The League! My Nick Kroll fandom may have clouded my judgement, but I thought it was pretty funny. Not the best premier of all time or anything like that, but it was just dirty enough (which was pretty dirty, actually), plenty funny, has a great cast, and a sharp script.
And an Ed Hardy zinger... which is, of course, always hilarious.
What I wonder, though, is if when writers come up with stuff about people being totally creepy and ambiguous with kids, do they ever rethink it when they realize they have to get actual child actors to participate in these scenes. Because Nick Kroll (to whom my heart belongs) was a complete pedobear in The League's series premier.
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Between Community, 30 Rock, and It's Always Sunny, I think last night was the best Thursday TV night yet this year.
Favorite lines:
"I saw your Dad's ghost again."
"I met JJ Abrams once, and I don't know what this means, but he said the island is just Hurley's dream."
"His mania is not confined to the ring."
Anything Chevy Chase said.
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and I think the best visual of the night may have been Kenneth's female persona holding the doll's head at the end of 30 Rock.
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I enjoy every time a Parcell appears "in cameo". There was the completely random (and relatively stupid) do the microwave mini-flashback a couple of episodes ago that had him over-enthusiastically participating, which made me chuckle. Then between his bowl haircut slash awesome mustache persona and his emotional female, I was on the floor. Those little moments always require the use of the hook button.
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"All God's children are terrible" pretty much summed up my entire worldview.
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The Trash Man vs. The Talibum. Classic match up.
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Yayy Capton Haddock!
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"i will honor him by eating a bowl of cherries and some ghost meat"
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The entire Jimmy Fallon Cameo on 30 Rock, I wish I could remember a quote from it
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"I was in a movie with Queen Latifah."
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"do you interview celebrities?"
"tonight i'm interviewing the dog that plays soccer."
"oh..."
something like that...
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More like:
Fallon: "If no one else dies by tonight, I'll kill my first guest. It's a dog who plays soccer."
Jordan: "A dog who plays soccer is your first guest?"
Fallon: (with shame) "Yes."
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Ugh who invited the mumblecore dude into our fantasy baseball league?
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Gah! football! that's what happens when you comment a show you've watched literally 2 seconds of.
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I had no idea gay Halloweens were so fun until NBC comedy Thursday.
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I didn't even know Gay Halloween was a thing until last night. Now I'm curious. Just about the parties. That's it. I swear.
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"Sex with a terrerist"
Thursday Night was then over (Only cus I have to watch the office last due to time feeds and science)
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You guys. A few weeks ago I was like, "Community still needs to prove itself! I see it's potential, but I need it to turn up the volume or it will be out! Auf wiedersehen!"
And it did! Last night was like the moment you look into the eyes of that chick you're banging and think, "Maybe I want to introduce her to my mom." It was love people. I'm not ready to marry it, yet, but I think it can at least have a drawer!
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I think it proved itself in the episode with the Dead Poet-style teacher. As soon as he tore up the menu at the cafe and ordered a birthday cake, I was sold.
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That's the episode where I went from being "just friendz" to wanting to bang. But it was still "it's complicated!" You know, from the popular social networking site, Bookface.
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Thursday night tv is so incredibly great. Are we all cowabunga on this?
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Another mogul here? Downvote! Downvote! Downvote! Downvote him/her, peoples! Anywho..."ghost meat" was teh funniest...ghost meat FTW! (Hey Gabe, your internet is still broken.)
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New Halloween costume: Danny Devito as The Trashman.
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I just couldn't get past how much I hate the entire concept of The League. Haha, these grown men are childish and hate the confinement forced upon them by their families and their wives who don't, nay can't, understand their whimsical and brotherly need to enjoy themselves via a sports-related manly group activity. Except for the one wife who actually understands this sport better than her husband, which of course humiliates and emasculates him while nominally contradicting the women-don't-get-sports stereotype. Haha!
That said, Nick Kroll and (especially) Paul Scheer are awesome, and I will probably continue to watch to see them.
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Don't you have a dissertation or something to write, Professor?
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Not today, Hopper. Not on Rex Manning Day!
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I agree with Rex. I honestly am not that familiar with the comics whose efforts we're supposed to be supporting here. I trust Gabe on that, so maybe I'll tune in next week. But so far, I have been totally turned off by the concept and advertisements. Every single joke in the ads was just like "Oh isn't it totally absurd and hilarious how much these guys LOVE fantasy football?" No, it's not.
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I know what Gabe means, last night was three straight hours of hilarious television. That might be a little too much! I mean, by the time I got to The League I was actually kind of exhausted from all the laughing. On the other hand, I have six new shows to watch every Thursday now, so it's basically Christmas every week.
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The League was awesome. Although I do love Kroll and Scheer I was most excited to see Jon Lajoie (taco). I think the whole song he did at the kid's birthday was the most hilarious thing to happen last night.
Also, I've been playing fantasy football since I was 12 and the jokes they made that were relevant to football didn't seem like they would alienate any viewers due to a lack of football knowledge. It just seemed like when they would make a football joke then they would explain it afterwards, like the Keyshawn Johnson joke.
But anyways, last night definitely got my roflcopter off the ground.
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Salame!
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I have resisted watching anything that Jeff Dunham does because, obviously, life is about choices and I choose no puppets. However, I am a 30 Rock fan, so I saw him on last night's episode. Maybe I sound silly, but that is his real act? He wasn't hamming it up because he was supposed to be in the fictional "Chuckle Hut/Laugh Factory"?
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It really is that awful. I'm still wrestling with the ethical dilemmas of having the worst on the best.
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Urghhh, I didn't get to watch any of these last night, so I will be watching tonight while I put together Halloween costumes. My On Demand finger is gonna be all blistered.
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Jon LaJoie singing a song on TV, the whole Sunny episode, Abed as Batman, Greg Pitikus, Michael's Dick in a Box, Kevin as Paul Blart Mall Cop, Fatty's Fat Sandwich Shack... Lots of love all over. Thanks, Thursday night TV.
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...and your lips still moved.
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RIOT PUNCH!
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greg pikitis is such a turd!
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i had the idea that maybe 30 Rock's subplot of the Rule of Three would end in Jeff Dunham's death. I would have been very kowabunga with that.
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k-owabunga? It's cowabunga, dude. Haven't you ever heard of The Sampsons?
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"Yes, I am the popular social networking website known as Bookface." (I Lots of Loved, but to be honest I thought Jim was going as the phrase "nose in a book.")
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I didn't get it either until Jim explained it!
I wish the entire episode had been Halloween, not just the cold open.
On the "Do Not Mock" board could anyone read what was written under Erin's name? She was good this episode. Having Pam turn the pages over so she couldn't read them, the koi fish "it did not suffer", and,
Michael: "Erin, do we have any of those clips that hold paper together?"
Erin: "Staples?"
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I believe it said "Orphan" under Erin's name...random, right? Under Ryan's it said "Kelly" ha.
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Ha..."No more mocking Dwight's tiny nose everybody. Did you sneeze it off? No more!"
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I thought he was "booknose," until it occurred to me that booknose is not a word anyone has ever used. I think it's Jim's worst costume ever. 3-hole punch Jim would be ashamed.
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Troy is my favorite character on Community. That guy can make anything funny! I could watch him forever.
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I could also watch him forever because he is so dreamy!
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My favorite part about marathon thursday was when danny devito looked confused and scremed ITS WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT! in defending his idea of the trashman. MegaLove for the trashman.
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Gotta love the Parcells are originally from the small town of Sexcriminalboat. Lady airline pilots!
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I'm not crying! I'm allergic to jerks!
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Also, can we talk about how Abed's Batman was incredible? I'm pretty sure his delivery of the "predictable but appetizing!" line was completely perfect.
Score = 8
The Office seemed 6is out 10. Still, some funny scenes.
[Michael drops from the ceiling wearing a noose and all the children scream]
Michael Scott: Kids, just remember, suicide is never the answer. Alright?
Pam Beesly: Suite 401.
Andy: Yeah I was gonna sing that part.
Pam Beesly: I know now you don't have to. [walking into elevator]
Andy: Well... except it was going to resolve the melody so, now my head hurts. Feels like I held in a sneeze. I hate this feeling! [pause before Andy sings as the elevator doors close] Suite 4-0-1!
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"Then you're paying too much. Who's your worm guy?"
I love Creed.
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"I don't even have Jan's Cell number! AaaaaaAAAArrgghhhh!!! Too far!"
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Betty White cameos everything in my dreams.
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If a gif of Jack beating up that stupid puppet surfaced, I would gladly support it.
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"I also fell into the foutain at the Steamtown Mall."
"I will eat a bowl of cherries and some ghost meat in his honor."
Dear lord, every show last night was immensely quotable.
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Holy shit, Community and 30 Rock were good last night. "How did you find the time to eat a diaper you found on the beach?" I laughed so hard, my children will probably be born laughing. But It's Always Sunny sort of let down. Artemis is never not funny when you put her in a scene but the whole America vs. the Taliban wrestling thing and the thing with the N-word, I dunno, I like to LAFF hard and very vigorously, but it made me kind of uncomfortable. By the time they got to the actual wrestling scene it just felt like they were just doing anything to get a laugh. It wasn't half as funny as the wrestling scene in Hundred Dollar Baby. Then again, I'm still studying to get my Masters in It's Always Sunny so what do I know? "Oh, you got kids, man?"
"Nahhh...not anymore." The best.
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i thought we agreed to stop making fun of my dated cultural references?
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I think Erin and Andy might be the new Jim and Pam...and I might be okay with that!
Also, what's up with Kelly & Erin's music video? Is that for next week?
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Ugh, I missed everything but 30 Rock! TO THE HULU!
In the meantime, my favorite line from that:
Jack: Nobody wants your East Coast, intellectual, left-wing-
Liz: Ugh, just say Jewish. You're taking forever.
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Also, I don't think there was a better way to end Jeff Dunham's cameo than with the line "All of God's children are terrible" and, of course, the beheading of Bubba J.
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Since there is no Wednesday Night TV Open Thread, I am going to go ahead and voice my love for Modern Family here. Are good sitcoms allowed to be on other nights? Does being on Wednesday make it not good? This show has Sofia Vergara in it, and it is on Wednesday. Is the show good AND bad at the same time? Is Modern Family the new Schroedinger's Cat?
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I've been meaning to get into it, but I just haven't had the time. I'm currently catching up with "How I Met Your Mother" but once I'm done with that I'll start on "Modern Family". Watching TV is hard work, y'all.
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I'm loving the little tags at the end of each episode of "Community", with Troy and Abed.
"That's one of my biggest fears...if i like, woke up as a donut."
"You would eat yourself?"
"I wouldn't even question it."
All in the Batman voice. So great.
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New game - everyone guess what the position 'Mexican Halloween' is ....
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Community owned! I cant believe they said "trippin' balls".
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OMG you guys. Seriously. You have to lay all the LAFFS all in one night? The League, while in my real life dream time, is my worst nightmare (dudes, fantasy football, latent sexism, etc.), was, in show, totally ridiculously funny and adorable. And 30 Rock? Is bringing it. For real. I love that show so much I wanna squeeze it.
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